1 Notmuch 0.32 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
8 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
9 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
10 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
11 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
12 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
13 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
14 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
15 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
16 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
17 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
22 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
23 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
25 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
26 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
27 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
28 - `notmuch_config_get`
30 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
31 now exposed (and generalized).
33 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
34 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
35 session has been fixed.
37 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
38 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formated documentation in `notmuch(3)`
43 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
44 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
46 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
47 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
49 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
50 ===========================
55 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
60 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
62 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
63 ===========================
68 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
73 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
78 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
80 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
81 ===========================
86 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
87 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
89 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
90 ===========================
95 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
100 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
101 with a C++ header for some compilers.
103 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
105 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
106 =========================
111 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
112 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
113 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
115 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
117 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
119 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
121 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
124 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
126 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
127 search, show and tree mode)
129 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
132 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
135 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
136 always be newest first.
141 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
142 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
143 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
149 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
150 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
151 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
152 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
154 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
155 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
156 non-status providing versions.
158 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
159 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
161 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
162 promised in the documentation.
167 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
168 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
169 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
174 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
175 development version).
180 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
185 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
187 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
188 =========================
193 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
194 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
195 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
198 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
204 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
205 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
206 notmuch-properties(7)).
211 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
212 has protected headers (see
213 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
214 notmuch-properties(7)).
219 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
221 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
222 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
228 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
231 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
232 ===========================
237 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
239 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
244 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
246 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
247 ===========================
252 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
253 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
255 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
256 ===========================
261 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
263 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
264 =========================
269 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
270 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
273 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
274 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
275 the set of headers to be indexed.
277 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
280 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
281 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
282 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
285 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
286 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
287 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
289 Command Line Interface
290 ----------------------
292 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
295 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
297 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
298 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
299 more details about what is included there. This status includes
300 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
305 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
306 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
308 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
310 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
312 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
314 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
316 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
319 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
321 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
322 and may be removed in a future release.
324 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
330 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
332 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
333 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
338 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
339 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
340 cryptography support.
345 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
346 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
347 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
349 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
350 ===========================
352 Command line interface
353 ----------------------
355 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
356 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
358 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
359 ===========================
364 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
365 by message properties.
370 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
372 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
373 ===========================
378 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
383 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
384 now needed to build this documentation.
386 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
387 ===========================
392 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
393 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
395 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
396 =========================
403 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
404 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
405 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
406 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
407 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
410 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
412 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
413 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
414 correct encoding for such messages.
416 Command Line Interface
417 ----------------------
419 Support relative database paths
421 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
422 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
423 to $HOME of the invoking user.
428 Improve stderr handling
430 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
431 needed on e.g. macOS.
433 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
435 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
440 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
441 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
447 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
448 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
454 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
455 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
458 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
459 =========================
464 Add support for thread:{} queries
466 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
467 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
468 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
470 Command Line Interface
471 ----------------------
473 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
475 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
477 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
479 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
480 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
481 does not have to be available during message receipt.
486 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
492 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
493 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
495 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
496 ===========================
501 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
503 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
504 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
505 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
507 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
509 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
510 related abort in `notmuch show`.
512 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
513 ===========================
518 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
519 better late than never.
522 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
523 =========================
525 Command Line Interface
526 ----------------------
528 Support for re-indexing existing messages
530 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
531 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
532 change the way specific messages are indexed.
534 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
535 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
536 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
538 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
540 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
542 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
544 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
545 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
546 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
547 the setting of `new.tags`.
549 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
551 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
553 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
555 This inserts into the top level folder.
557 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
559 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
561 New option --output=address for notmuch address
563 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
565 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
567 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
568 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
569 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
571 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
576 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
578 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
579 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
580 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
581 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
582 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
583 config set index.decrypt true".
585 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
586 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
587 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
588 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
589 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
590 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
591 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
592 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
594 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
595 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
596 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
597 this feature without considering the security of your index.
602 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
604 Use make-process when available
606 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
607 notmuch command without using temporary files.
612 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
614 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
615 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
616 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
617 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
619 New functions to count files
621 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
622 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
624 New function to remove properties
626 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
627 drop all properties with a common pattern:
628 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
630 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
632 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
633 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
634 possibility of NULL was not documented.
636 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
638 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
639 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
640 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
641 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
642 operator may decide to change from message to message.
649 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
650 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
651 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
657 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
659 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
660 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
662 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
664 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
666 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
668 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
673 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
674 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
676 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
677 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
678 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
679 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
680 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
681 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
686 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
688 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
689 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
690 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
691 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
693 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
694 ===========================
699 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
700 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
703 Command Line Interface
704 ----------------------
706 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
707 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
710 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
711 ===========================
713 Command Line Interface
714 ----------------------
716 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
717 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
722 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
725 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
726 ===========================
731 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
734 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
735 =========================
740 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
742 Skip HTML tags when indexing
744 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
746 Command Line Interface
747 ----------------------
749 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
751 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
756 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
758 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
759 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
762 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
767 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
769 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
770 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
772 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
774 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
775 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
778 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
780 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
782 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
784 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
785 ===========================
787 Command Line Interface
788 ----------------------
790 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
795 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
797 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
798 ===========================
803 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
805 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
806 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
809 Command Line Interface
810 ----------------------
812 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
814 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
816 Fix bug in dump header
818 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
819 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
820 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
825 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
827 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
828 =========================
833 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
835 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
838 Command Line Interface
839 ----------------------
841 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
843 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
844 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
845 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
847 New default output format to 3
849 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
850 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
851 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
852 default format changes.
857 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
859 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
860 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
861 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
862 or tree view to resume.
864 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
865 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
866 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
869 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
870 they were when you postponed in the final message.
874 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
875 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
876 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
877 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
878 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
882 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
883 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
884 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
885 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
886 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
887 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
891 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
892 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
894 Stop display of `application/*` parts
896 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
897 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
898 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
899 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
900 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
901 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
902 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
903 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
906 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
908 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
909 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
910 only tagged the current thread.)
912 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
914 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
915 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
916 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
918 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
920 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
921 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
922 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
923 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
924 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
925 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
926 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
928 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
930 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
931 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
932 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
937 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
939 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
942 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
944 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
947 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
948 ===========================
953 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
955 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
956 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
957 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
960 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
961 ===========================
963 Command Line Interface
964 ----------------------
966 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
971 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
973 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
974 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
975 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
977 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
978 ===========================
983 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
984 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
986 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
987 ===========================
989 Command Line Interface
990 ----------------------
992 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
994 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
995 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
996 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1001 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1003 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1004 ===========================
1006 Command Line Interface
1007 ----------------------
1009 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1014 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1016 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1017 ===========================
1022 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1024 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1025 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1026 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1028 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1030 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1032 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1033 ===========================
1038 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1040 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1045 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1047 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1048 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1049 the original colours.
1051 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1052 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1054 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1056 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1057 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1058 bug, and hence the test.
1060 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1061 =========================
1063 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1064 ---------------------
1066 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1068 Support for single argument date: queries
1070 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1072 Support for blocking opens
1074 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1075 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1077 Support for named queries
1079 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1080 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1081 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1086 Message property API
1088 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1089 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1090 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1091 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1093 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1095 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1100 Support for compile time options
1102 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1103 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1106 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1108 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1109 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1110 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1111 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1112 scripts to ignore it.
1117 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1119 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1120 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1121 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1123 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1124 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1125 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1126 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1127 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1128 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1129 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1131 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1132 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1135 Make internal address completion customizable
1137 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1138 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1139 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1140 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1143 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1145 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1146 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1147 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1148 completion for the current buffer.
1150 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1151 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1152 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1156 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1157 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1158 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1159 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1160 will be added instead.
1162 Face customization is easier
1164 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1165 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1166 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1167 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1169 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1174 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1179 Go bindings moved to contrib
1181 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1183 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1185 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1186 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1188 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1190 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1191 ===========================
1198 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1199 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1201 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1203 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1205 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1206 ===========================
1211 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1213 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1218 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1223 Use `env` to locate perl.
1228 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1230 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1232 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1234 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1236 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1237 =========================
1244 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1245 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1247 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1249 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1250 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1251 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1256 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1257 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1258 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1260 Command Line Interface
1261 ----------------------
1263 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1265 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1270 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1275 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1277 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1278 parts are now included in replies.
1280 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1281 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1282 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1283 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1285 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1287 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1289 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1291 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1292 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1293 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1294 forwards only the current message.
1296 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1298 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1299 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1300 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1301 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1302 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1303 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1304 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1305 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1308 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1309 longer generate empty buffers
1311 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1312 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1313 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1314 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1315 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1317 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1319 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1322 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1324 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1327 Address completion improvements
1329 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1330 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1331 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1332 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1333 interactive address completion.
1335 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1337 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1338 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1339 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1344 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1345 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1346 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1352 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1353 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1354 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1355 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1356 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1357 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1359 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1360 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1361 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1362 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1363 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1364 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1366 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1367 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1369 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1370 =========================
1375 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1378 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1380 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1381 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1382 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1384 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1385 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1387 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1388 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1389 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1391 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1393 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1394 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1395 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1396 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1397 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1398 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1403 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1404 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1407 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1408 option to configure.
1410 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1412 Command Line Interface
1413 ----------------------
1415 Database revision tracking
1417 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1418 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1419 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1420 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1422 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1424 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1425 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1426 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1427 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1428 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1429 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1430 manual page for further information.
1435 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1437 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1438 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1440 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1442 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1443 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1444 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1446 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1448 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1450 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1451 customization as well.
1453 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1455 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1457 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1459 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1461 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1462 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1463 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1464 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1466 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1468 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1469 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1470 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1471 this variable to 10000.
1476 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1477 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1479 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1481 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1482 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1483 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1484 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1485 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1486 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1487 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1488 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1489 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1492 Database revision tracking
1494 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1495 query parser and the new function
1496 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1498 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1500 Deprecated functions
1502 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1503 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1504 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1505 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1510 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1512 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1513 ===========================
1518 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1520 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1521 ===========================
1526 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1528 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1529 =========================
1531 Command-Line Interface
1532 ----------------------
1534 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1536 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1537 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1538 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1540 Path to gpg is now configurable
1542 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1543 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1548 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1550 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1555 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1560 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1565 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1567 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1568 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1570 New error logging facility
1572 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1573 output formerly printed to stderr.
1575 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1577 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1579 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1581 Fix for rounding of seconds
1586 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1588 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1589 documentation has been removed.
1591 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1593 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1594 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1599 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1600 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1601 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1606 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1607 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1608 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1609 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1610 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1611 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1614 git checkout config origin/config
1616 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1618 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1619 =========================
1624 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1625 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1626 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1627 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1628 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1629 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1630 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1632 Command-Line Interface
1633 ----------------------
1635 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1637 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1638 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1639 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1640 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1641 script callers should still check the return value.
1643 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1645 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1646 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1647 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1648 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1649 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1650 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1651 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1653 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1655 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1656 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1657 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1659 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1661 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1662 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1663 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1664 currently unmaintained.
1666 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1668 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1669 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1670 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1671 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1673 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1675 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1676 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1677 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1678 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1679 count of duplicate addresses.
1684 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1686 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1687 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1688 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1691 Improved handling of the unread tag
1693 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1694 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1695 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1696 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1697 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1698 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1699 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1701 Expanded default saved search settings
1703 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1704 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1706 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1708 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1709 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1710 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1712 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1714 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1715 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1716 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1717 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1718 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1719 the variable for details.
1724 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1726 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1727 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1728 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1729 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1731 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1733 Previously, library users were required to call
1734 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1735 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1736 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1737 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1738 too out of date for that API.
1740 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1742 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1743 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1744 atomic section will be aborted.
1746 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1747 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1749 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1751 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1752 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1753 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1754 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1755 messages into the same thread.
1760 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1761 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1762 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1763 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1764 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1765 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1770 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1771 from the config file. Use something like:
1775 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1776 "footer": "</body></html>",
1785 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1790 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1791 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1792 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1794 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1795 ===========================
1800 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1802 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1804 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1806 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1807 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1809 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1811 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1814 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1815 ===========================
1817 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1822 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1824 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1826 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1828 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1830 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1836 Use --quick when starting emacs
1838 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1840 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1842 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1844 Command-Line Interface
1845 ----------------------
1847 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1848 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1853 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1855 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1856 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1858 Fix for phrase indexing
1860 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1861 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1862 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1867 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1869 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1870 unintentionally removed.
1872 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1873 =========================
1878 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1879 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1880 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1881 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1882 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1883 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1884 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1885 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1886 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1892 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1894 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1895 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1896 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1897 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1898 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1899 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1900 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1901 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1903 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1905 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1906 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1907 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1908 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1911 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1913 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1914 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1915 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1916 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1917 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1918 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1919 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1924 Notmuch database upgrade
1926 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1927 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1928 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1929 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1930 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1931 released version of Notmuch before now.
1933 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1935 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1936 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1937 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1938 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1940 Message header parsing changes
1942 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1943 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1944 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1945 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1946 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1947 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1949 Command-Line Interface
1950 ----------------------
1952 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1954 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1956 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1958 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1960 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1962 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1963 user does not want it.
1965 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1967 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1968 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1969 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1970 support formatted output.
1972 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1974 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1975 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1976 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1984 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1985 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1986 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1987 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1988 `~/.emacs` with these.
1990 Changed format for saved searches
1992 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1993 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1994 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1995 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1998 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1999 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2000 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2001 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2003 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2004 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2005 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2007 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2008 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2009 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2010 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2011 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2013 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2015 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2016 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2017 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2019 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2021 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2022 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2023 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2024 message had been unread).
2026 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2027 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2028 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2029 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2031 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2032 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2033 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2035 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2036 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2037 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2038 to tags already present.
2042 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2043 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2044 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2045 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2046 these differ from each other.
2047 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2049 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2051 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2052 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2053 for these Emacs versions.
2055 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2057 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2058 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2060 Bug fixes for sender identities
2062 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2063 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2064 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2066 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2068 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2069 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2070 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2071 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2073 Reply pushes mark before signature
2075 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2076 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2077 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2079 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2081 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2082 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2088 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2089 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2091 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2092 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2093 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2094 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2096 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2097 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2098 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2099 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2100 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2102 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2104 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2105 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2107 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2108 =========================
2110 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2111 ---------------------------------------
2113 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2114 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2115 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2116 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2117 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2118 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2119 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2123 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2124 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2126 Command-Line Interface
2127 ----------------------
2129 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2131 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2132 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2133 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2134 print for each message.
2136 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2137 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2138 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2139 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2141 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2143 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2144 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2145 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2147 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2149 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2150 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2151 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2152 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2154 `notmuch compact` command
2156 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2157 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2158 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2159 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2160 move the compacted database into place.
2165 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2167 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2168 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2169 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2170 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2171 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2172 and multiple threads.
2174 Using `notmuch-tree`
2176 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2178 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2179 search, show and tree mode itself)
2181 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2184 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2185 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2187 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2189 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2190 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2191 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2192 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2193 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2194 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2195 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2197 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2199 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2200 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2201 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2202 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2203 thread when the search was performed.
2205 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2207 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2208 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2209 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2211 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2213 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2214 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2217 Built-in help improvements
2219 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2220 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2221 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2223 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2225 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2226 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2227 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2229 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2231 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2232 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2234 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2236 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2237 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2238 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2239 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2241 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2243 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2244 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2245 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2246 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2248 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2250 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2251 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2252 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2254 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2256 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2257 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2258 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2260 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2262 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2263 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2264 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2265 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2266 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2268 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2270 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2271 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2272 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2273 the body part of the message.
2278 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2279 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2280 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2282 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2283 =========================
2285 Command-Line Interface
2286 ----------------------
2288 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2290 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2291 folder and notmuch index.
2293 `notmuch count --batch` option
2295 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2296 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2298 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2300 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2301 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2302 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2305 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2307 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2308 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2309 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2310 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2311 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2314 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2316 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2317 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2319 Top level option to specify configuration file
2321 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2322 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2324 Bash command-line completion
2326 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2327 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2328 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2329 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2330 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2331 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2332 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2333 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2334 bash-completion package.
2336 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2341 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2343 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2344 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2345 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2346 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2347 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2348 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2349 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2350 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2352 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2354 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2355 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2356 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2358 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2360 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2361 previous thread in the search results.
2363 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2365 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2366 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2368 Faster search and show
2370 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2371 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2372 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2373 threads should show faster.
2377 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2378 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2379 in question was now removed from this release.
2384 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2385 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2390 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2392 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2393 ===========================
2398 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2400 Internal test framework changes
2401 -------------------------------
2403 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2404 being unimplemented.
2406 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2407 ===========================
2409 Internal test framework changes
2410 -------------------------------
2412 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2413 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2415 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2416 =========================
2421 Date range search support
2423 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2424 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2425 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2426 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2427 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2430 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2432 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2433 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2434 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2435 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2436 but may be removed in a future release.
2438 Command-Line Interface
2439 ----------------------
2441 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2443 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2444 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2446 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2448 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2449 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2450 officially deprecated.
2452 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2454 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2455 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2456 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2458 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2460 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2461 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2464 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2465 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2466 dump/restore format.
2468 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2470 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2471 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2472 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2474 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2476 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2477 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2478 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2480 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2482 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2483 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2484 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2485 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2490 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2492 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2493 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2494 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2495 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2497 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2499 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2500 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2501 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2502 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2503 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2504 the behavior of this, see
2505 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2506 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2508 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2509 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2510 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2512 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2514 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2515 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2518 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2520 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2521 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2522 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2523 simply displayed in place of the message.
2525 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2527 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2528 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2530 Improved text/calendar content handling
2532 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2533 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2534 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2535 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2537 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2539 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2540 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2541 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2542 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2544 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2546 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2547 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2548 for HTML email containing images.
2550 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2552 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2554 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2556 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2559 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2561 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2562 the point where it was.
2564 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2566 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2567 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2568 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2569 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2570 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2572 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2574 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2575 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2576 thread instead of the message id.
2578 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2579 -----------------------------
2581 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2582 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2583 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2584 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2585 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2586 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2587 further details and installation.
2592 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2594 Internal test framework changes
2595 -------------------------------
2597 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2599 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2600 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2601 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2602 can result in buggy behavior.
2604 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2605 =========================
2610 Maildir tag synchronization
2612 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2613 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2614 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2615 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2616 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2617 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2620 Command-Line Interface
2621 ----------------------
2623 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2624 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2625 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2626 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2627 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2633 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2635 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2637 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2638 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2639 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2641 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2643 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2644 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2645 span multiple lines.
2647 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2649 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2650 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2651 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2652 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2653 inside the result or message.
2655 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2657 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2658 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2660 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2661 user-specified formatting
2663 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2664 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2665 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2666 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2667 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2669 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2670 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2672 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2673 ===========================
2678 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2679 compilation error for this contrib package.
2681 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2682 ===========================
2687 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2689 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2690 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2691 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2692 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2694 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2695 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2698 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2699 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2700 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2701 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2704 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2706 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2709 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2710 =========================
2712 Command-Line Interface
2713 ----------------------
2717 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2718 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2719 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2720 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2722 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2723 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2724 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2725 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2729 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2730 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2732 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2733 tag in your query, for example:
2735 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2737 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2738 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2740 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2741 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2743 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2745 Raw show format changes
2747 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2748 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2749 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2750 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2751 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2752 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2753 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2754 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2756 Listing configuration items
2758 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2764 Changes to tagging interface
2766 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2767 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2768 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2769 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2770 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2771 for more information.
2773 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2774 may need to update in custom configurations.
2776 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2778 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2779 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2780 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2781 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2784 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2785 -----------------------------
2787 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2788 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2789 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2790 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2791 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2792 contrib/ from now on.
2797 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2798 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2800 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2801 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2803 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2804 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2805 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2807 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2808 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2810 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2811 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2812 returning the new database object or directory object.
2819 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2820 compatible with go 1.
2822 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2823 =========================
2825 Command-Line Interface
2826 ----------------------
2830 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2831 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2832 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2833 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2835 Mail store folder/file ignore
2837 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2838 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2839 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2841 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2842 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2844 Unified help and manual pages
2846 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2847 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2850 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2852 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2853 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2861 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2862 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2863 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2864 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2866 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2868 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2869 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2871 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2874 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2875 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2876 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2878 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2880 should be changed to:
2882 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2884 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2886 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2887 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2889 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2891 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2892 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2893 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2894 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2895 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2896 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2900 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2901 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2902 of Mailing List Archives.
2904 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2906 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2907 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2910 Show view archiving key binding changes
2912 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2913 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2914 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2915 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2916 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2919 Support text/calendar MIME type
2921 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2924 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2926 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2927 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2928 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2929 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2931 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2933 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2934 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2935 messages blue by default in the search view.
2939 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2940 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2947 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2950 Python bindings changes
2951 -----------------------
2953 Python 3.2 compatibility
2955 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2957 Added missing unicode conversions
2959 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2960 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2961 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2966 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2968 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2969 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2970 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2971 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2972 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2974 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2975 ===========================
2980 Fix error handling in python bindings
2982 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2983 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2984 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2985 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2987 Quote MML tags in replies
2989 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2990 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2991 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2992 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2993 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2994 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2995 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2996 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2998 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2999 =========================
3001 Command-Line Interface
3002 ----------------------
3006 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3007 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3008 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3009 importing new messages into the database.
3011 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3013 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3014 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3015 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3020 Automatic tag query optimization
3022 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3023 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3024 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3026 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3028 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3029 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3030 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3035 Reduction of memory leaks
3037 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3038 and fixed in this release.
3045 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3046 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3047 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3050 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3052 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3053 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3054 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3057 Improvements in saved search management
3059 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3060 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3061 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3063 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3065 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3066 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3067 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3069 New face for crypto parts headers
3071 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3072 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3073 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3076 Use space as default thousands separator
3078 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3079 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3080 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3082 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3083 buttonized id: links
3085 New function notmuch-show-advance
3087 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3088 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3089 be bound to SPC with:
3091 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3093 Various performance improvements
3098 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3099 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3102 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3103 ===========================
3108 Fix crash in python bindings
3110 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3111 for some, but not all users.
3113 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3114 ===========================
3119 Fix `--help` argument
3121 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3122 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3123 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3125 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3126 =========================
3128 New build and testing features
3129 ------------------------------
3131 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3132 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3133 prerequisites is improved.
3135 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3137 New command-line features
3138 -------------------------
3140 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3142 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3143 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3146 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3148 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3149 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3150 favour of using stdout.
3152 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3154 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3155 limit the number of results shown.
3157 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3159 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3160 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3163 New emacs UI features
3164 ---------------------
3166 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3168 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3169 starting with "tag:".
3171 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3173 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3174 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3176 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3178 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3180 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3182 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3183 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3188 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3190 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3192 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3193 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3194 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3195 requires a database rebuild:
3197 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3198 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3200 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3202 New collection of add-on tools
3203 ------------------------------
3205 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3206 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3207 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3210 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3212 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3213 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3214 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3216 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3217 ========================
3219 New, general features
3220 ---------------------
3222 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3224 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3225 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3226 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3227 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3228 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3235 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3236 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3238 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3242 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3243 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3244 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3247 Python bindings changes
3248 -----------------------
3250 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3252 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3253 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3254 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3255 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3256 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3257 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3259 Ruby bindings changes
3260 ---------------------
3262 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3263 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3264 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3265 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3270 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3272 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3273 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3275 Reply formatting cleanup
3276 ------------------------
3278 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3279 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3281 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3282 ========================
3284 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3286 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3287 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3288 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3289 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3292 Improved Build system portability
3294 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3295 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3296 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3298 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3300 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3302 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3304 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3305 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3306 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3308 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3309 ========================
3311 Vim interface improvements
3312 --------------------------
3314 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3316 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3317 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3318 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3319 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3320 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3322 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3324 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3325 * fix compose temp file name
3327 Python Bindings changes
3328 -----------------------
3330 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3332 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3333 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3335 Build-System improvements
3336 -------------------------
3338 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3340 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3343 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3344 ==========================
3349 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3351 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3352 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3354 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3355 =======================
3357 New, general features
3358 ---------------------
3360 Folder-based searching
3362 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3363 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3364 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3368 For example, one might use things such as:
3374 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3375 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3377 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3378 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3379 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3380 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3382 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3383 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3384 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3387 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3388 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3390 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3392 Support for PGP/MIME
3394 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3395 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3396 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3398 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3400 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3401 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3403 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3404 notmuch will receive these tags.
3406 New command-line features
3407 -------------------------
3409 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3411 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3412 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3414 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3416 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3417 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3418 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3420 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3422 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3423 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3424 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3425 which parts a signature part applies).
3427 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3429 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3430 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3431 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3432 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3433 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3436 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3438 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3439 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3440 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3441 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3442 by translating it internally to the new call.
3444 Performance improvements
3445 ------------------------
3447 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3449 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3450 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3451 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3453 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3454 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3456 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3458 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3459 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3460 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3462 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3463 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3464 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3465 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3467 Faster initial indexing
3469 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3470 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3471 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3473 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3475 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3476 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3477 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3478 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3480 New emacs-interface features
3481 ----------------------------
3483 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3485 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3486 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3487 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3488 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3489 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3490 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3492 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3494 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3495 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3496 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3497 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3499 User-selectable From address
3501 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3502 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3503 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3504 will prompt for the from address to use.
3506 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3507 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3508 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3510 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3511 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3512 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3515 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3517 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3518 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3520 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3522 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3524 ----- Original Message -----
3526 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3527 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3528 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3529 citations work much like conventional citations.
3531 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3533 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3534 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3535 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3536 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3537 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3539 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3540 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3542 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3544 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3545 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3546 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3548 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3550 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3551 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3552 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3553 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3554 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3556 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3558 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3561 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3563 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3565 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3567 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3570 Vim interface improvements
3571 --------------------------
3573 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3575 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3576 * Implementing archive in show view
3577 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3578 * Add delete commands
3581 Bindings improvements
3582 ---------------------
3584 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3586 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3587 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3589 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3591 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3595 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3596 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3597 `list(Messages)` works now
3598 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3600 These allow, for example:
3602 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3604 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3606 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3612 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3614 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3617 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3619 New build-system features
3620 -------------------------
3622 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3624 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3625 the configure script from some other directory:
3632 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3634 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3635 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3636 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3637 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3638 manual invocation of configure.
3640 New test-suite feature
3641 ----------------------
3643 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3645 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3646 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3647 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3648 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3649 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3652 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3654 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3655 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3656 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3657 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3658 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3659 are updated to take advantage of this.
3661 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3663 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3664 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3665 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3666 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3672 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3674 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3675 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3676 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3678 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3680 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3682 to:user@elsewhere.com
3684 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3686 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3688 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3690 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3691 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3692 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3695 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3696 from the Received headers in some cases
3698 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3699 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3701 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3703 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3705 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3707 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3708 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3709 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3711 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3712 -------------------------
3714 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3716 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3717 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3718 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3720 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3722 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3723 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3724 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3727 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3729 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3730 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3731 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3732 fixed to avoid this bug.
3734 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3736 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3737 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3739 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3740 ========================
3742 New, general features
3743 ---------------------
3745 Maildir-flag synchronization
3747 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3748 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3757 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3759 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3760 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3761 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3762 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3764 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3765 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3766 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3767 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3770 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3772 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3773 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3774 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3776 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3777 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3779 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3780 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3782 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3783 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3784 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3786 New library features
3787 --------------------
3789 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3791 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3792 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3793 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3794 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3796 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3797 message with the new function:
3799 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3801 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3802 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3803 over all available filenames for a given message.
3805 New command-line features
3806 -------------------------
3808 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3810 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3811 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3812 access to the mail store itself.
3814 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3815 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3816 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3817 name of a script containing:
3819 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3821 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3822 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3828 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3830 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3832 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3834 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3835 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3836 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3837 now produces nothing).
3839 Emacs interface improvements
3840 ----------------------------
3842 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3844 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3846 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3848 Display current thread subject in a header line
3850 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3852 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3854 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3855 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3856 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3857 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3858 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3859 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3860 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3862 Vim interface improvements
3863 --------------------------
3865 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3867 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3868 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3874 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3876 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3877 ========================
3879 New command-line features
3880 -------------------------
3882 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3884 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3885 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3886 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3888 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3889 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3890 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3891 scripts. For example:
3893 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3894 <operations-on> "$file"
3897 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3899 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3900 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3901 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3902 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3903 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3904 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3906 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3908 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3909 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3910 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3911 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3913 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3915 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3916 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3917 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3918 default rather than Bcc.
3920 New library features
3921 --------------------
3923 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3925 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3926 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3931 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3933 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3934 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3935 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3936 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3937 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3938 notmuch customize interface.
3940 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3942 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3943 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3944 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3945 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3947 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3949 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3950 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3951 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3952 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3954 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3956 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3957 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3958 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3959 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3960 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3961 notmuch customize interface.
3963 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3965 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3966 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3967 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3968 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3969 notmuch customize interface.
3971 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3973 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3974 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3975 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3976 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3979 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3981 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3982 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3983 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3986 New build-system features
3987 -------------------------
3989 Various portability fixes have been applied
3991 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3992 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3993 more portable than ever before.
3995 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3997 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3998 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3999 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4001 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4002 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4003 automatically run ldconfig.
4005 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4006 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4007 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4009 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4010 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4011 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4012 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4014 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4016 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4017 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4018 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4019 used in the resulting Makefile.
4021 New test-suite features
4022 -----------------------
4024 New modularization of test suite
4026 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4027 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4028 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4029 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4030 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4031 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4032 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4033 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4035 New testing of emacs interface
4037 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4038 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4039 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4040 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4041 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4042 database via the FCC setting.
4047 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4049 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4050 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4051 persistent error of the form:
4053 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4055 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4056 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4058 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4060 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4061 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4062 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4064 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4066 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4067 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4068 parsing the notmuch results).
4070 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4072 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4075 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4076 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4077 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4082 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4084 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4085 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4086 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4087 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4088 the emacs interface.
4090 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4092 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4093 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4094 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4096 Python-binding fixes
4097 --------------------
4099 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4101 Debian-specific fixes
4102 ---------------------
4104 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4106 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4107 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4108 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4111 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4112 ==========================
4117 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4119 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4120 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4121 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4122 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4124 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4126 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4127 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4128 want notmuch to crash.
4133 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4135 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4136 directory does not exist
4141 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4143 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4144 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4146 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4147 ========================
4149 New command-line features
4150 -------------------------
4152 User-configurable tags for new messages
4154 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4155 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4156 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4157 to specify this value.
4159 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4161 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4162 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4163 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4165 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4167 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4168 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4170 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4172 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4173 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4174 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4175 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4176 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4179 Indication of author names that match a search
4181 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4182 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4183 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4184 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4185 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4186 messages in the thread are listed first.
4188 New: Python bindings
4189 --------------------
4191 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4192 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4193 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4194 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4196 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4197 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4198 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4201 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4202 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4203 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4205 Emacs interface improvements
4206 ----------------------------
4208 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4210 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4211 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4212 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4213 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4214 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4215 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4216 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4217 but without any of the disadvantages).
4219 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4220 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4221 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4224 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4225 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4226 instead running something like:
4228 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4230 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4231 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4232 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4235 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4237 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4238 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4239 tweaked by the user.
4241 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4242 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4243 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4246 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4247 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4248 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4251 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4253 This support currently relies on an external program,
4254 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4255 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4256 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4257 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4258 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4261 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4262 notmuch) is available via:
4264 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4266 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4267 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4268 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4270 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4272 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4273 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4274 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4275 making this automatic in a future release.
4277 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4279 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4280 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4281 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4282 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4283 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4284 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4287 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4289 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4290 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4291 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4293 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4295 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4296 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4297 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4299 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4300 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4301 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4302 other representation.
4304 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4305 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4308 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4310 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4311 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4312 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4314 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4315 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4316 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4318 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4320 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4321 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4322 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4323 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4324 to display the search result.
4326 More flexible handling of header visibility
4328 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4329 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4330 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4331 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4332 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4333 with the 'h' keybinding.
4335 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4336 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4337 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4339 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4341 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4343 Customizable formatting of search results
4345 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4346 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4347 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4349 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4351 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4353 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4358 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4360 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4361 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4362 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4363 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4369 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4371 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4372 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4374 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4376 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4377 accept are now all accepted.
4382 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4384 Better display of output from failed tests
4386 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4387 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4389 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4390 ========================
4392 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4393 detailed release notes this time!
4395 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4396 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4398 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4399 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4400 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4401 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4408 Better guessing of From: header
4410 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4411 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4412 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4413 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4414 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4417 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4419 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4420 guaranteed to match all messages.
4422 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4424 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4425 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4426 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4427 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4428 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4431 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4434 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4435 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4436 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4437 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4442 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4444 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4445 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4446 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4447 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4449 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4451 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4453 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4454 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4455 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4457 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4459 Previously, the user might see:
4461 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4465 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4467 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4468 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4469 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4470 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4472 Emacs client features
4473 ---------------------
4475 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4477 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4478 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4479 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4480 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4481 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4483 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4486 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4487 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4488 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4489 search with the '*' binding.
4491 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4493 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4494 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4497 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4499 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4500 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4501 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4503 Build-system features
4504 ---------------------
4506 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4508 Add support to configure for many standard options
4510 We include actual support for:
4512 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4514 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4516 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4517 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4519 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4520 separate "make install-emacs"
4522 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4524 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4525 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4526 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4528 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4531 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4532 ========================
4534 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4536 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4537 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4539 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4540 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4541 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4542 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4543 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4544 tags from messages in a thread.
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